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Re: [PATCH] ARM: Use different linker path for hardfloat ABI


On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:08:56 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> i don't think that's true.  on an x86_64 system, the 64bit libs are in 
> /lib64/.  some distros tried to (pointlessly imo) resist and force 64bits into 
> /lib/ when the native ABI was x86_64 (Gentoo included), but those are legacy 
> imo, and afaik, they didn't break the ldso paths.
> 
> so in a setup that only has hardfloat binaries, you'd have all the libs in 
> /libhf/, not just the ldso.

That's exactly my concern. If /libhf is chosen for the dymamic linker path, but it's not adopted by everyone else for libraries and other files, then at best you'd have a symlink, at worst a dir with only one file inside. 

> the implication in supporting both hardfloat and softfloat simultaneously is 
> that you'd could have them both installed.  thus putting them both in /lib/ 
> doesn't make much sense if you're still going to need /libhf/ to hold 
> everything else.

That case has only any chance of realization in a multiarch environment such as Debian/Ubuntu. The rest won't be affected at all. And the dynamic linkers -different filename of course- are the only libs that will be in /lib straight, the rest will be in /lib/<triplet>. So there is no danger of any conflict, at least not with libraries.

-- 
Konstantinos Margaritis <konstantinos.margaritis@linaro.org>


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